Quotes by Architects

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. Bernard Tschumi
Crime Society Secretly Delights Excess Sort Violated
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. Bernard Tschumi
You Architecture Stage Other Minimal Architect Take Impose Austere Itself Reflects Place Apartment Views Things
I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.' Bernard Tschumi
City Feel New Comfortable Very York Nationality New York Where Thing
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. Bjarke Ingels
Political Cause Challenge Sacrifice Design Dilemma Moral Some Like Sort Sustainability
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. Bjarke Ingels
Life Architecture Space Believe Else Drawing Evolutionary Evolve Outer Outer Space Come Ideas Anything Crash Anything Else Board
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. Bjarke Ingels
Positive Environmental World Design Side Our Our World Effects Social
Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world. Bjarke Ingels
Change People World Change The World Could Instead Trying
If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons. Bjarke Ingels
You Achieve Will Collaborators Able Only Morons Trying Transmit Your
People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them? Bjarke Ingels
People Architecture World Understanding Considerations Parameters Physical Shape Outside Environment Perhaps Concerns Around How Lack Often Being Processes Them Profession
In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority. Bjarke Ingels
Commitment Car Pedestrian City Long-Term Equal Priority Movement Where Forms Public Creating Transportation Copenhagen
I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it. Bjarke Ingels
Work Opportunities Focus Willing Ball Anyone Organisation Really Creating Growth
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea. Bjarke Ingels
Humor Country Big Nothing Think Local Bit Would Small Small Country Never Idea America Little Little Bit Started
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. Bjarke Ingels
World Think Hides Boring Highly Because Real Itself Often The Real World Real World Frustrated Avant-Garde Incomprehensible
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Bjarke Ingels
Architecture Building Vocabulary Restricted Town House Limited Block Either
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense. Bjarke Ingels
You Brilliant Sense Fathom Something Fact No Sense Mortals Makes Understandable Banal Just Ordinary Explain Mean Might Means Actually Necessarily
Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion. Bjarke Ingels
Work Religion People Opportunities Some People Gender Others Our Colleagues Sexual Some More Than Maybe Race Orientation Appeals Present
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'. Bjarke Ingels
Love Beautiful Definition Complexity Minimum Data Computer Very Maximum Information Capacity Transmit Programmers
Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm. Bjarke Ingels
Innovation Digital Few Wave Valley Focused Has-Been Silicon Silicon Valley Economic Economic Growth Over Global Tidal Been Very Decades Much Realm Engine Growth Last
A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career. Cameron Sinclair
Love You Hate Job Way Look Make Quit Going Should Right Career
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats. Cameron Sinclair
Build Community Wearing Hats However Number
If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many. Cameron Sinclair
You Change World Few Change The World Say Impact Something Only Share Idea Come Up Pioneer Going Anyone Turn Then Many Round
Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it. Cameron Sinclair
You World Treat State Failed Like Understand Fix Then Players Needed
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. Carlo Ratti
Quality Startup Air Draw Scale Running City Case Networks Attached Individual Through Developed Veins New Like Wheel Human Pollution Dynamic Urban Sensors Bikes Measure Help Exposure Map Copenhagen
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change. Carlo Ratti
Day Change Every Day People Every Promote Some Stays Throwing Bottle Also Still Behavioral Then Show Plastic Away
One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text. Carlo Ratti
You Water Made Fall Those Write Developed Opening Like Ideas Got MIT Text Pipe Closing Curtain Patterns Create Show Workshop Images Imagine
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail. Carlo Ratti
Time Few Cocktail Aims Everyone Minutes Potential Share Taken New Just Prepare
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